Comments on: English Is Astoundingly Like Russian, But What About French? (The Origin of the Word Bistro)http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/french-2/
Academic insights for the thinking world.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:32:55 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Susanhttp://blog.oup.com/2009/06/french-2/#comment-153082
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:09:59 +0000http://blog.oup.com/?p=4646#comment-153082Please submit this article to Wikipedia – this is the only complete explanation that I found on the web that provides clear evidence as to why the word Bistro did not originate from Russian.

(As much as I would like it to, since I’m Russian.)

The truth matters more.

Thank you.

]]>By: John Cowanhttp://blog.oup.com/2009/06/french-2/#comment-151918
Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:09:01 +0000http://blog.oup.com/?p=4646#comment-151918Well, English is after all a penultimate-stress language with many lexical exceptions. However, it may be that pirozhki gets its stress by confusion with pierogi, which is Polish and therefore legitimately penultimately stressed, though pierogi are of course vareniki, not pirozhki. I have seen the doubly hybridized term “Varenyky pierogies” on the menu of a Ukrainian restaurant (now sadly defunct) in NYC.
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